US News and World Report cancer hospital rankings: do they reflect measures of research productivity?

ABSTRACT:

Context

Prior research has faulted the US News and World Report hospital specialty rankings for excessive reliance on reputation, a subjective measure of a hospital's performance.

Objective

To determine whether and to what extent reputation correlates with objective measures of research productivity among cancer hospitals.

Design

A retrospective observational study.

Setting

Automated search of NIH Reporter, BioEntrez, BioMedline and Clinicaltrials.gov databases.

Participants

The 50 highest ranked cancer hospitals in 2013's US News and World Report Rankings.

Exposure

We ascertained the number of NCI funded grants, and the cumulative funds received by each cancer center. Additionally, we identified the number of phase I, phase II, and phase III stud

SUBMITTER: Prasad V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4172593 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature